Sufi Poetry Quotes

#1. Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

Linus Torvalds

#3. The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

Eric Cantor

#4. Have you ever seen anyone more beautiful? So smart too. She's just my type. I didn't even know I had a type.

Jennifer Flackett

#5. You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#6. Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and women, and finally they ruin themselves, accidentally, simply by getting old.

Zadie Smith

#7. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.

English Translation.

Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.

Amir Khusrau

#8. Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

Charles Hodge

#9. Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Mary Parker Follett

#10. I have fun. I don't take myself too seriously.

Georgia Salpa

#11. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#12. Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest


English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.

Amir Khusrau

#13. I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#14. As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

Chris Hardwick

#15. My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

Kelis